Wind-engine



(No Model.)

H. B. COLMAN.

WIND ENGINE. n

No. 317,628. Patented May l2, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. f

IglUTSOX B. COLMAN, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

WIND-ENGINE.

erncrrcnrr'orv forming para of Letters Pai-.ent No. 317,628, ma May v12, laas;

Application filed December 27, 1884. (No model.) i

.To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HUrsoN B. CoLMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, Stat-e of Michigamhave invented a new and useful Vind-Engine, of which the following -is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct and combine, with a rotary shaft having a swiveled bearing-support, a machine chainber or frame and means for transmitting power connecting with said shaft and chamber in a manner that when the swiveled bearing-support is turned from one point of the compass to another the machine-chamber will turn with it, thus dispensing with swiveled reciprocating rods and means heretofore used for` transmitting motion from a rotary shaft having a swiveled bearing-support toarotary shaft with which machinery is connected.

. A construction embodying the invention in effect simply amounts to a vertical eXtension of the `swiveled bearing-support ofthe driving-shaft and having bearings therein for the driven shaft, and the machinery to be driven supported by said extension.

In the drawings forminga part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a windengine, parts being broken away and in vertical section; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the lower part of the construction, portions being broken away and `in section, the verti` cal broken shaftin one figure beingacontinuation of the shaft in the other figure.

In Fig. 1, B is the engine-head with the usual vertical extension in the top ofthe derrick, said partsl constituting for the purposes of this description the swiveled bearing-support of the driving-shaft E, said shaft being the wind-wheel shaft.7

Connecting with the head B is a hollow tubing, r, the same being vertically extended and provided with bearings in the fixed beam T. This beam may represent the roof or floor of a building or a brace or a guide-beam connected with a frame, l? l?, according to the location of the engine.

lVith the lower end of the tubing r is connected the machine chamber F. Thus the swiveled bearing-support above supports the weight of the machine-chamber F, and when the former turns, carrying the wind-wheel to different points of the compass, the chamber F turns with it. This tubular shaft r may be detachably connected with the head B and machine-chamber, as shown in Fig. 1, and in Fig. 2 in beam n, or these parts may be rigidly connected.

Below the floor L of the machine-chamber F at the sides are guide friction-wheels y y for engaging the interior surface of a circular guide-rim, Fig. 2. This construction may not be found alwaysnecessary. In someinstances the wheels may be set at avertical angle, and traverse the door C beneath them.

The use of the chamber F is illustrated by 'l the grinding-mill A, and the sawing-machine R, supported by said chamber and carried with it when -it turns. The driven shafts d d have bearing in the wall of the chamber and in a central support, at which latter point they engage the end of a vertical shaft, t, by means of bevel-gear c' c o. The upper end of this shaft is provided with bevel-gear a', which meshes with the bevel-gear a, secured to the end of the driving-shaft E. By this means rotary motion is transmitted from the driving-shaft E to the driven shafts d d during all periods of change in the position of the windwheel and its swiveled head, because, as before stated, when said parts turn the machinechamber and contents turn with them.

In the drawings, the shaft tis shown to be hollow. This construction need not be followed, however, except when desiring to connect a pump-rod, o, withthe crank-disk of the driving-shaft and pass said rod down through the shaft into the chamber, and down through said chamber, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a rotary drivingshaft, a swiveled bearing-support for said shaft provided with a vertical extension, a machinechamber connecting with said vertical extension, a driven shaft having bea-rings in said machine-chamber, and a transmitting power-shaft connecting in an operative manner the driving and the driven shafts, substantially as set forth 2. The swiveled engine -head and windwheel shaft, the tubular extension and con- ICO nected machine-chamber, the driven shafts, a transmitting-shaft oonneoting in an operative manner..,by bevel-gears with the Wind-Wheel shaft and the driven shafts, and a beam forming guide-bearings to the lower end of the tubular extension, in combination.

3. A machine frame orch'amber connecting with the swiveled bearing-support of a driving-shaft and containing a driven shaft and provided with guide-Wheels at the lowersides, in combination with said driving-shaft and swiveled bearing-support and a transmitting` shaft connecting-in anoperative ,manner the driving and driven shafts, substantially as set forth. v

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

HUTSON B. COLMAN. Witnesses:

SAM FoLz, l Jos. A. FRANKLIN. 

